Appeal No. 1999-0091
Application No. 08/762,052
(a) monitoring travel of said vehicle; and
(b) initiating a telephone call to a user telephone
interface associated with said user before said vehicle reaches
said vehicle stop to thereby indicate impending arrival of said
vehicle at said vehicle stop; and
(c) causing said user telephone interface to exhibit a
distinctive telephone ring sound that is associated with said
advance notification method.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Greer 4,350,969 Sep. 21, 1982
Oprea 5,323,456 Jun. 21, 1994
Reyes et al. (Reyes) 5,361,296 Nov. 01, 1994
Ross 5,444,444 Aug. 22, 1995
(filed May 14, 1993)
Claims 1 through 5, 8 through 12, 16 through 18, 21, and 22
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Ross in view of Oprea.
Claims 6, 7, 13, 14, 19, and 20 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Ross in view of Oprea
and Reyes.
Claim 15 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ross in view of Oprea and Greer.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 20,
mailed September 22, 1997) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejections, and to appellant's Brief (Paper No.
18, filed August 11, 1997) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 21, filed
December 1, 1997) for appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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